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Gene Wolfe

(Gene Rodman Wolfe)
USA  (1931 - )
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About Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe's enigmatically stylish first novel The Fifth Head of Cerberus, with its meditations on identity, shape-shifting aliens and variously abused clones, made him instantly a figure to watch, as did short stories like the ones contained in The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories. His most important book is The Book of the New Sun, a quartet consisting of The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor and The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian, an apprentice torturer, wanders towards his destiny in a far future world that is always more complex than it appears; a cyborg fellow prisoner turns out to be a robot patched with flesh. A narrative involving escapes, betrayals, sword-fights, miracles and battles is also a complex text involved in games of allusion that range from Dickens to Borges; the four volumes contain almost a book's worth of interspersed stories and fables. Other major Wolfe works include various slightly less elaborate sequels to The Book of the New Sun--The Urth of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun--and the inventive urban fantasy Free Live Free .
 
New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

The Sorcerer's House
The Sorcerer's House

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

An Evil Guest
An Evil Guest

The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction
The Best of Gene Wolfe

Non fiction
The Castle of the OtterLetters HomeA Walking Tour of the ShamblesShadows of the New Sun: Essays
 
Anthologies containing stories by Gene Wolfe
Orbit 2 (1967)
Nova 1 (1970)
Again Dangerous Visions Book 1 (1972)
Universe 2 (1972)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 (1973)
Nebula Award Stories 8 (1973)
Universe 3 (1973)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 (1974)
Best SF: 1974 (1974)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 8
Nebula Award Stories 9 (1974)
Worlds Far and Near (1974)
Universe 5 (1975)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 (1976)
The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror (1976)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 (1977)
To Follow a Star (1977)
Universe 7 (1977)
The Best of Analog (1978)
Immortal (1978)
The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year 1 (1979)
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1978 (1979)
Dark Forces (1980)
Nebula Winners 14 (1980)
New Terrors 1 (1980)
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1980 (1981)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 (1982)
Unicorns! (1982)
Nebula Award Stories 17 (1983)
100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories (1984)
The Best from Universe (1984)
Masques: All New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1984)
Top Fantasy (1984)
Top Science Fiction (1984)
Mercenaries of Tomorrow (1985)
Nebula Awards 20 (1985)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 11 (1985)
Afterlives (1986)
The Architecture of Fear (1987)
Jack the Ripper (1988)
The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989)
     aka Demons and Dreams
Lovecraft's Legacy (1990)
Nebula Awards 24 (1990)
Best New Horror 2 (1991)
Book of Dreams (1991)
The Night Fantastic (1991)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)
Aliens and UFO's: Extraterrestrial Tales from Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1993)
Christmas Forever (1993)
Isaac Asimov's War (1993)
Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Ultimate Zombie (1993)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology (1994)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1994)
Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias (1994)
Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica (1994)
The Best of Weird Tales (1995)
Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology (1995)
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995)
Tomorrow Bites (1995)
Cybersex (1996)
Dante's Disciples (1996)
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1996)
Space Opera (1996)
UFOs: The Greatest Stories (1996)
Visions of Wonder (1996)
Year's Best Science Fiction (1996)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
The Horns of Elfland (1997)
Return of the Dinosaurs (1997)
The Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to Forever (1997)
Wild Women (1997)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997)
Year's Best SF 2 (1997)
The Best of Crank! (1998)
The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams (1998)
Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H P Lovecraft in Popular Culture (1998)
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
     aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
Not the Only Planet: Science Fiction Travel Stories (1998)
Year's Best SF 3 (1998)
999 (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999)
Moon Shots (1999)
Aliens Among Us (2000)
The Furthest Horizon (2000)
Graven Images (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eleven (2000)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)
Orbit 2Nova 1Again Dangerous Visions Book 1Universe 2
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2Nebula Award Stories 8Universe 3The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3
Nebula Award Stories 9Worlds Far and NearUniverse 5The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5
The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of HorrorThe Best Science Fiction of the Year 6To Follow a StarUniverse 7
The Best of AnalogImmortalThe Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year 1Dark Forces
Nebula Winners 14New Terrors 1The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11Unicorns!
Nebula Award Stories 17100 Great Fantasy Short Short StoriesMasques: All New Works of Horror and the SupernaturalTop Fantasy
Mercenaries of TomorrowThe Year's Best Fantasy Stories 11AfterlivesThe Architecture of Fear
Jack the RipperThe Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual CollectionLovecraft's LegacyNebula Awards 24
Best New Horror 2Book of DreamsThe Night FantasticThe Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
Aliens and UFO's: Extraterrestrial Tales from Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and FactChristmas ForeverIsaac Asimov's WarModern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction
The Norton Book of Science FictionThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual CollectionThe Ascent of WonderThe Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary AnthologyFuture Primitive: The New EcotopiasLove in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric EroticaThe Best of Weird Tales
Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian AnthologyRuby Slippers, Golden TearsTomorrow BitesCybersex
Dante's DisciplesModern Classics of FantasySpace OperaUFOs: The Greatest Stories
Visions of WonderYear's Best Science FictionDancing with the DarkThe Horns of Elfland
Return of the DinosaursThe Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to ForeverWild WomenThe Year's Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection
Year's Best SF 2The Best of Crank!The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken DreamsEternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H P Lovecraft in Popular Culture
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of FantasyThe Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time GreatsNot the Only Planet: Science Fiction Travel StoriesYear's Best SF 3
999The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic FantasyMoon ShotsAliens Among Us
The Furthest HorizonGraven ImagesThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume ElevenThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection
 
Short stories
Trip, Trap (1967)
How the Whip Came Back (1970)
The Island of Doctor Death (1970)Nebula (nominee)
Against the Lafayette Escadrille (1972)Nebula (nominee)
The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972)Nebula (nominee)
Hugo (nominee)
The Headless Man (1972)
It's Very Clean (1972)
Mathoms from the Time Closet (1972)
The Recording (1972)
The Death of Doctor Island (1973)Nebula
Hugo (nominee)
Feather Tigers (1973)
How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion (1973)Nebula (nominee)
La Befana (1973)
The Rubber Bend (1974)
The Hero as Werwolf (1975)
Straw (1975)
The Eyeflash Miracles (1976)Nebula (nominee)
When I Was Ming the Merciless (1976)
The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton (1977)
The Doctor of Death Island (1978)
Seven American Nights (1978)Nebula (nominee)
Hugo (nominee)
The Detective of Dreams (1980)
The God and His Man (1980)
In Looking-Glass Castle (1980)
Kevin Malone (1980)
The War Beneath the Tree (1980)Nebula (nominee)
War Beneath the Tree (1980)
A Cabin on the Coast (1981)Nebula (nominee)
The Claw of the Conciliator (excerpt) (1981)
The Woman the Unicorn Loved (1981)Hugo (nominee)
Procreation (1983)
Love, Among the Corridors (1984)
The Map (1984)
Redbeard (1984)
The Boy Who Hooked the Sun (1985)
Checking Out (1986)
All the Hues of Hell (1987)
Empires of Foliage and Flower (1987)
In the House of Gingerbread (1987)World Fantasy (nominee)
The Peace Spy (1987)
Game In the Pope's Head (1988)
The Other Dead Man (1988)
Sightings at Twin Mounds (1988)
The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It) (1988)
The Friendship Light (1989)
Lord of the Land (1990)
And When They Appear (1993)
Queen of the Night (1994)
The Death of Koshchei the Deathless (1995)
The Ziggurat (1995)
Ain't You 'Most Done? (1996)
Bed and Breakfast (1996)
Bluesberry Jam (1996)
Counting Cats in Zanzibar (1996)
Flash Company (1997)
Kid Sister (1997)
Petting Zoo (1997)
Wolfer (1997)
The Night Chough (1998)
No Planets Strike (1998)Hugo (nominee)
Wrapper (1998)
A Fish Story (1999)
How I Got Three Zip Codes (1999)
The Tree Is My Hat (1999)
The Eleventh City (2000)
The Horars of War
The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun
"A Story" by John V Marsch


Awards
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1971) : The Island of Doctor Death
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1973) : The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Nebula Best Novella nominee (1973) : The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1973) : Against the Lafayette Escadrille
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1974) : How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1974) : The Death of Doctor Island
Nebula Best Novella winner (1974) : The Death of Doctor Island
Nebula Best Novella nominee (1977) : The Eyeflash Miracles
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1979) : Seven American Nights
Nebula Best Novella nominee (1979) : Seven American Nights
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1981) : The War Beneath the Tree
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1981) : The Shadow of the Torturer
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1982) : The Woman the Unicorn Loved
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1982) : The Claw of the Conciliator
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1984) : The Citadel of the Autarch
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1984) : The Citadel of the Autarch
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1985) : A Cabin on the Coast
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1987) : The Soldier of the Mist
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1987) : Free Live Free
World Fantasy Best Short story nominee (1988) : In the House of Gingerbread
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1988) : The Urth of the New Sun
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1988) : The Soldier of the Mist
World Fantasy Best Collection winner (1989) : Storeys from the Old Hotel
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1989) : The Urth of the New Sun
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1990) : The Soldier of Arete
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1994) : Nightside the Long Sun
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1996) : Calde of the Long Sun
World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1996)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1997) : Nightside the Long Sun
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1998) : No Planets Strike
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (2005) : The Knight
Nebula Best Novel nominee (2005) : The Knight
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (2006) : The Wizard Knight
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (2006) : The Wizard Knight
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (2007) : Soldier of Sidon


Books about Gene Wolfe
Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth CycleAttending Dedalus: Essays on Gene WolfeSolar Labyrinth: Exploring Gene Wolfe's Book of the New SunThe Long and the Short of It: More Essays on the Fiction of Gene Wolfe
 
Gene Wolfe recommends
Portrait of Jennie
Portrait of Jennie (1940)
Robert Nathan
"Real magic realism from a time worse-and better-than most of us can imagine. Read this, and be enchanted. "
Drowning Towers
Drowning Towers (1987)
George Turner
"His most powerful novel...George Turner belongs to the world."
The Model
The Model (1987)
Robert Aickman
"The late Robert Aickman was up to something. and quite consciously. He did not title his little book The Model for nothing. What he has done (and knew he had done) is discover a new wonderland."
Neverness
Neverness (1988)
David Zindell
"One of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson - perhaps the finest"
Coelestis
Coelestis (1993)
Paul Park
"A brilliant, stunning, frightening writer."
Illumination
Illumination (2001)
(Eiden Myr, book 1)
Terry McGarry
"Recommended without reservation to those who take their magic, and their relationships-seriously."
Trash Sex Magic
Trash Sex Magic (2004)
Jennifer Stevenson
"I'd scarcely begun when I fell under the author's spell."
Space Vulture
Space Vulture (2008)
John J Myers and Gary K Wolf
"Read it and have a thrilling adventure..."



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